reporting

Problems deploying .rdlc to server. (ie. ReportViewer with local report)

I would like to Publish my web application and view a report with the Microsoft ReportViewer. Everything works locally but when published I've encountered a troubling number of errors. Finally I seem to have come across one that I cannot fix. So far I have solved the first 3 problems by... Installing the Miscrosoft Report Viewer ...

SSRS2005 User Reports

Anyone know how I can copy the user reports (and model) someone has created to point at another database (same schema). I don't really want to recreate the data model becuase (a) it's really complicated and (b) the previous developer added lots of friendlt column names. Thanks in advance, Jim ...

Monitoring code metrics in a multi-language product

We've got a product that's made up of C++ and Java parts. The C++ stuff is build using make and the java projects are made up of some ant projects and some maven2 projects. I'm looking for a tool that will help me get useful metrics out of the build system over time. examples include * Total build time * C++ project build time * Java...

How to determine the number visible children in an hierarchical report?

I am using SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 to create a report. A table in this report displays hierarchical data, using a ID and ParentID field in the data. Each data row has an ID field and a ParentID field, where the ParentID points to the ID of the row that is its parent. Displaying this hierarchically is no problem, but now I wa...

accessing parameters when writing a scripted BIRT data source in java

Hi everyone, I am using BIRT reporting with a scripted POJO data source and am having trouble accessing report parameters. I am scripting everything in Java, rather than javascript. The code is below: public class StockDataSetHandler extends ScriptedDataSetEventAdapter { ... @Override public void open(IDataSetInstance dataSet) { ...

Reporting tool for OLAP, *not* OLTP!

I'm looking for a control that I can put on top of an already existing OLAP star schema to allow the user to define their own "queries" and generate reports. Right now I have some predefined reports built on top of the cubes, but I'd like to allow the user to define their own criteria based on the cubes that I've created. I've found lo...

Dynamics AX 2009 Report: LabelPosition above does not work?

I'm just in the process of changing the SalesInvoice Report. One thing I'm trying to do is show the label of some items not left of the item value but above it instead. Seems easy enough: just change the LabelPosition (for example from CustInvoiceJour_InvoiceId) setting from "left" to "above" and voila: the label has vanished. It is jus...

Error message vs. throwing exception C# ASP.Net

In many cases in web applications you would need to return an error message, rather than simple true/false result. One would use exceptions for that, but I consider exceptions to be an indication of, you know, exceptional behavior. Let's take a Register() function for a class User for instance. If it was successful we can simply return t...

How to print thousands of personalized documents over the web

I need to generate thousands of personalized letters from more than 800 workstations in diverse locations. While we had only a dozen of customers per location, we used Crystal Reports over the web and its PDF/Word export function to produce multi-page document for print. With thousand of customers this just doen't work for the followin...

Dynamically update one parameter based on the value of another

We have a report in SSRS 2005, where in we wanted to update one parameter(which is not linked to any other report parameters or dataset) based on the value of another report parameter(which is the selected value from a dataset). Can anyone let me know how to achieve this functionality? ...

Can you have two tables in Visual studio 2008 report (in the report control) and how

Can you have two tables in Visual studio 2008 report (in the report control) and how is that done? I have a database with multiple tables and when I go to add a report control and then add a report it appears to only allow me to have one of the tables. I see all the tables in my data GUI but when I select properties on the report it onl...

How to design a report request from client machines to be run on an available server

I have a vb.net 2.0 winforms project that is full of all kinds of business reports (generated with Excel interop calls) that can be run "on-demand". Some of these reports filter through lots of data and take a long time to run - especially on our older machines around the office. I'd like to have a system where a report request can be ...

SSRS 2005 Sorting

Hello, A quick question for someone, hopefully! In my .rdl file source I can see the tag "< sorting >" Where abouts in the GUI (I'm using Visual Studio) can this property be set? Thanks in advance, Jim ...

How can I change the source of a Data Source View and the Report Models based on it to a different database?

I have a number of reports deployed to a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services server. They were all developed using the same Report Model (SDML) that references the same Data Source View (DSV) that points to a test database filled with mostly dummy data. Now, I would like to make those reports pull data from the live database with our real...

Looking for a reporting tool that will allow vector graphics in output file (PDF)

I have been tasked with evaluating our current system that we use for creating and outputing reports. Currently we are using Crystal Reports ver 8, (I know that this is and old version.), which has a custom commandline app that we wrote in C# to execute the report for a given parameter passed through the command line. We like Crystal b...

Using Windows Workflow Foundation in applications with reporting requirements

I am wondering, very generally, about the feasibility of a WF solution in an application, where the business owners want extensive reporting capabilities on application state and data. The main issue that I see is that WF tends to hide data, such as a recipient list, that is serialized inside the workflow instances, so it can't be repor...

.rdlc reporting bound to Object Data Source in Three layer Application

Hi, i have the following situation, i have a Reporting layer(stand alone) in asp.net application(NOT website, this means NO App_Code folder exists), and i want just to create Object Data Source to take an Object in a separate layer(lets say from Data Access Layer), and then to use that Object Data Source to create a report, i have spent ...

linked report from a chart- SSRS

Hi, I am displaying a table in an SSRS report. What I want to do is, if I click on one of the columns in this chart, it opens another report by passing parameters from parent report to child report. How can I achieve this? Regards Manjot ...

What is the most efficient way to produce a report against a large set of in memory data in .NET?

I am working on a project that sends bills out to hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of customers each month. A lot of the data needs to be manipulated, with interest and whatnot dynamically calculated on the fly through an internal API. Right now I have the process which works in chunks of 2,500 bills at a time and writes out an ...

Online Status Report of a FTP Server?

Hello Everyone, I want to make a status report of when my FTP server is on and when its off. HTML is the language which I prefer to use. I have never used HTML before, and I need it urgently due to a large request of when my ftp server is off and when its on. Can someone help me with this status report? Thanks, Kevin ...